The progress that these guys have made in 5 years and the sheer volume of quality code is simply amazing.
Yet, it pales in comparison to the accomplishment that "could have been" if they had collaborated with the Gnome team (or verse visa) to create one standard desktop.
Now we have two competing desktops with the users sitting on the sidelines waiting for a winner.
or if they've made general driver-wide optimizations that happen to also help Half-Life.
It doesn't matter...
Coming is the day where the driver will optimize itself for all popular games, on-the-fly. What is wrong with that? A race car team is allowed to optimize their car for the particular track on which they are competing. This is the same thing.
Who cares? Soon, we'll have drivers that constantly monitor via internet for "best optimizations" versus the installed software. Ultimately, if the card can consistently output over 30fps, I doubt that anyone will bother with these penile comparisons anymore.
Yeah.. my father-in-law called me the other day and was like, "I can get connected and pull up my start page but I can't get to any of my porn".
So I strolled over there to download and install the blaster patch only to find that he needed Win2k SP2 or greater. That's only 8 hours and 10 minutes over dial-up.
When you say, "minority", I hope that you are referring to anyone with Windows.
...this guy is implying that people learn from virus attacks?
Yes... I wouldn't be surprised if one of these recent RPC worms was written by the Department of Homeland Security as a "warning shot" to get all these systems "fixed" before some "terrorist" wrote something of a more malicious nature.
Now we just need to put together some kind of class action suit for them spamming my regular mailbox with those damn CDs
I actually called them and asked to be removed from their mailing list and they told me that it wasn't possible because they send the CDs at random. That is, they just pick a few hundred thousand fucking addresses and then spam them with CDs. So I told the representative to whom I was speaking (after I told her that I was not angry with her) what I would do about it.
Basically, anytime I see a stack of AOL CDs at a supermarket or restaurant, I pick the whole damn thing up and put it in the nearest garbage can.
Fuck them.
Oh... and print up some "return to sender" labels and take them to the mail box with you every day. I put them on all postal spam and send it back before I even get it into my house. Junk mail is down about 75% after 6 months or so.
Well, I'm damn sure Color Kinetics isn't getting any of my money.
Funny you bring up Color Kinetics... (I didn't bother to read the article so I had no idea they were mentioned).
I was at Marshall Fields the other day (with the wife... not for me) and I noticed that their lighting system had an RJ45 jack on it with bonafide CAT5 coming out. "Ethernet for lighting?", I pondered to myself. I checked the website and found nothing relating to this but WTF?
Does anyone know why they would need ethernet control for washing some walls with a few different colors? Is this some sort of hypnosis-shopping thing?
Instantly - within a fraction of a second - the database is checked to determine whether or not you're allowed to open that door. If so, the door unlocks momentarily; if not, it remains locked.
My employer also uses this system. It is nice and, when I forget my card, I simply wait for someone else to use theirs and I walk in behind them. Really secure!
Honestly, if MS released a brand new operating system that looked identicle to XP, but was just ultra secure and ultra stable, would it sell?
That would likely be called a service pack.
The big problem with Microsoft is that they don't like to support their older work. Take Win2K SP1 or R1, for example. They didn't bother to release an update for the latest worm for it. Instead, they required users to upgrade to at least SP2. For dial-up users, that represents 8 hours and 10 minutes.
So Microsoft is largely to blame for the current state of infection among Win2K boxes. When they find a hole as large as this, they need to release a patch for all popular versions - not just the version that they see fit to support.
How does a US law stop spam from other countries? You can't get *all* other countries to adopt US policy.
The solution lies in the protocol. I never get spam via instant messenger. Why not add offline storage capabilities to an IM style of communication? In this respect, people can send me instant messages when I'm online, and send me stored messages when I'm offline.
If someone wants to be added to my "list of accepted communications", then they need to know a PIN in order for the request to even make it to me.
Problem solved.
I'm actually baffled why an enterprising individual hasn't implemented this as of yet. While you've certainly got the problem of getting people to move to the new solution, it wouldn't be *that* difficult for most services like Hotmail to switch. In order for this to work, we'd need:
1) Open standard for all to use (i.e. - IM interoperability) 2) Free of charge / bundled with ISP service
Since #1 will require legislation, I would have to agree with your argument.
If you RTFA you'd find that Microsoft is only "looking very seriously" at this idea
Microsoft are MORONS. The fix for this particular worm required SP2 or greater. That is 8 hours and 10 minutes over dialup.
Windowsupdate is a god send for people with broadband but MS are going to be required to send CDs in the mail if they want to keep dial-up users up to speed.
Microsoft have been talking about making auto-updating enabled by default in a service pack which may be linked to the delay.
It doesn't matter...
The blaster patch on Win2K requires at least SP2 which requires 8 hours, 10 minutes to download via dial-up. Because of this, I disable auto-updates on any dial-up PC that I work on. It just isn't bandwidth effective.
IMHO, Microsoft should be *required* to send critical updates on a CD package via postal mail. The updates should be hands-free, though I doubt that we'll still have trouble getting newbs to run a fix on a PC that doesn't appear to be broken.
The other twist would be the built-in firewall software. Simply run updates to auto-configure it to block known exploits. Anyway that you look at it, there is a big problem.
I'd settle for a worm that downloaded a kernel and loadlin.exe.
You actually don't need a worm for that. Most users aren't savvy enough to know what an ActiveX installer is so they simply "click yes". We wouldn't have the Gator problem that exists if users were just a bit more educated (or MS software wasn't so exploit-able).
If you could create a distro that installed and co-existed on an NTFS partition, you'd have a winner. Heck, you could even give users the option to "remove my windows partition" once they started using it.
IMHO - Linux on NTFS is the first step to widespread adoption. Users would be able to install it through Windows via a regular InstallShield or whatever...
IMO this is just another case of the media sesationalizing news to drive up ratings.
No... it isn't. Allow me to elaborate:
My employer uses an electronic payment system provided by iPay. The other day, I was required to "re-regster" due to some "security enhancements". A long story short: the registration process hick-upped and I was able to pull up some serious information (accidentally) on *other people*. I could have done some damage with this info. Much damage. But instead, I called up, reported the event and switched back to the old mail-it-to-me method of compensation. It is worth it.
Another event happeed recently - I registered for DTE Energy for auto-deduct/electronic billing. After I had some trouble with the freakin' way the site handles cookies, I would up calling tech support. It turns out that DTE simply uses CheckFree.com to provide these services. In the process of registration, DTE simply *stole* my MSN Passport (it did not notify me and I had no idea that I had a checkfree account until the tech told me). When the tech support agent told me that my logon to checkfree was *my freaking MSN passport*, I bitched like hell and asked him to cancel my account. I mean, WTF? Do they think that I'd be happy to trust *Microsoft* with my checking account?
I could go on... The bottom line is that nothing is safe anymore. Democracy and Capitalism are mutally exclusive.
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My lesson learned: shread everything.
EXCEPT the DICTIONARY!
The progress that these guys have made in 5 years and the sheer volume of quality code is simply amazing.
Yet, it pales in comparison to the accomplishment that "could have been" if they had collaborated with the Gnome team (or verse visa) to create one standard desktop.
Now we have two competing desktops with the users sitting on the sidelines waiting for a winner.
or if they've made general driver-wide optimizations that happen to also help Half-Life.
It doesn't matter...
Coming is the day where the driver will optimize itself for all popular games, on-the-fly. What is wrong with that? A race car team is allowed to optimize their car for the particular track on which they are competing. This is the same thing.
Who cares? Soon, we'll have drivers that constantly monitor via internet for "best optimizations" versus the installed software. Ultimately, if the card can consistently output over 30fps, I doubt that anyone will bother with these penile comparisons anymore.
Does infrasound include the "brown note", by chance? If so, then I think that they might be on to something. I'm always shitting myself...
This is definitely the handiest way to replace multiple passwords.
I beg to differ...
Most of the users in my environment simply write all their passwords on a piece of paper and stick them to their computer.
Problem solved!
I've been tunneling all my morse code over SSH...
The video is in ASF format!
Course us geeks like it, but we're the minority.
Yeah.. my father-in-law called me the other day and was like, "I can get connected and pull up my start page but I can't get to any of my porn".
So I strolled over there to download and install the blaster patch only to find that he needed Win2k SP2 or greater. That's only 8 hours and 10 minutes over dial-up.
When you say, "minority", I hope that you are referring to anyone with Windows.
...this guy is implying that people learn from virus attacks?
Yes... I wouldn't be surprised if one of these recent RPC worms was written by the Department of Homeland Security as a "warning shot" to get all these systems "fixed" before some "terrorist" wrote something of a more malicious nature.
Now we just need to put together some kind of class action suit for them spamming my regular mailbox with those damn CDs
I actually called them and asked to be removed from their mailing list and they told me that it wasn't possible because they send the CDs at random. That is, they just pick a few hundred thousand fucking addresses and then spam them with CDs. So I told the representative to whom I was speaking (after I told her that I was not angry with her) what I would do about it.
Basically, anytime I see a stack of AOL CDs at a supermarket or restaurant, I pick the whole damn thing up and put it in the nearest garbage can.
Fuck them.
Oh... and print up some "return to sender" labels and take them to the mail box with you every day. I put them on all postal spam and send it back before I even get it into my house. Junk mail is down about 75% after 6 months or so.
Good luck!
Well, I'm damn sure Color Kinetics isn't getting any of my money.
Funny you bring up Color Kinetics... (I didn't bother to read the article so I had no idea they were mentioned).
I was at Marshall Fields the other day (with the wife... not for me) and I noticed that their lighting system had an RJ45 jack on it with bonafide CAT5 coming out. "Ethernet for lighting?", I pondered to myself. I checked the website and found nothing relating to this but WTF?
Does anyone know why they would need ethernet control for washing some walls with a few different colors? Is this some sort of hypnosis-shopping thing?
Instantly - within a fraction of a second - the database is checked to determine whether or not you're allowed to open that door. If so, the door unlocks momentarily; if not, it remains locked.
My employer also uses this system. It is nice and, when I forget my card, I simply wait for someone else to use theirs and I walk in behind them. Really secure!
And then the power went out last week...
Honestly, if MS released a brand new operating system that looked identicle to XP, but was just ultra secure and ultra stable, would it sell?
That would likely be called a service pack.
The big problem with Microsoft is that they don't like to support their older work. Take Win2K SP1 or R1, for example. They didn't bother to release an update for the latest worm for it. Instead, they required users to upgrade to at least SP2. For dial-up users, that represents 8 hours and 10 minutes.
So Microsoft is largely to blame for the current state of infection among Win2K boxes. When they find a hole as large as this, they need to release a patch for all popular versions - not just the version that they see fit to support.
Legislation is the ONLY way to get rid of spam.
???
How does a US law stop spam from other countries? You can't get *all* other countries to adopt US policy.
The solution lies in the protocol. I never get spam via instant messenger. Why not add offline storage capabilities to an IM style of communication? In this respect, people can send me instant messages when I'm online, and send me stored messages when I'm offline.
If someone wants to be added to my "list of accepted communications", then they need to know a PIN in order for the request to even make it to me.
Problem solved.
I'm actually baffled why an enterprising individual hasn't implemented this as of yet. While you've certainly got the problem of getting people to move to the new solution, it wouldn't be *that* difficult for most services like Hotmail to switch. In order for this to work, we'd need:
1) Open standard for all to use (i.e. - IM interoperability)
2) Free of charge / bundled with ISP service
Since #1 will require legislation, I would have to agree with your argument.
What will be the next challenge?
Art.
This one's a Centrino Dali
If you RTFA you'd find that Microsoft is only "looking very seriously" at this idea
Microsoft are MORONS. The fix for this particular worm required SP2 or greater. That is 8 hours and 10 minutes over dialup.
Windowsupdate is a god send for people with broadband but MS are going to be required to send CDs in the mail if they want to keep dial-up users up to speed.
Microsoft have been talking about making auto-updating enabled by default in a service pack which may be linked to the delay.
It doesn't matter...
The blaster patch on Win2K requires at least SP2 which requires 8 hours, 10 minutes to download via dial-up. Because of this, I disable auto-updates on any dial-up PC that I work on. It just isn't bandwidth effective.
IMHO, Microsoft should be *required* to send critical updates on a CD package via postal mail. The updates should be hands-free, though I doubt that we'll still have trouble getting newbs to run a fix on a PC that doesn't appear to be broken.
The other twist would be the built-in firewall software. Simply run updates to auto-configure it to block known exploits. Anyway that you look at it, there is a big problem.
I'd settle for a worm that downloaded a kernel and loadlin.exe.
You actually don't need a worm for that. Most users aren't savvy enough to know what an ActiveX installer is so they simply "click yes". We wouldn't have the Gator problem that exists if users were just a bit more educated (or MS software wasn't so exploit-able).
If you could create a distro that installed and co-existed on an NTFS partition, you'd have a winner. Heck, you could even give users the option to "remove my windows partition" once they started using it.
IMHO - Linux on NTFS is the first step to widespread adoption. Users would be able to install it through Windows via a regular InstallShield or whatever...
What happens when someone releases an...
[starts coding furiously on a anti-Gator worm]
They didn't even make it fully buzzword compliant. There's no '.' in there or 'e' anywhere... What about 'flex' or 'i'?
Will this do? [bestbuy.com]
No, but this one will do nicely.
I tell you what... As someone who was affected by the blackout (and still having brown&*!@$%^34356
#$#@%&%$7~~~~$#@$%^
&*(
NO CARRIER
Ahh... Thank you...
I see the schooner now.
Sorry about that!
IMO this is just another case of the media sesationalizing news to drive up ratings.
No... it isn't. Allow me to elaborate:
My employer uses an electronic payment system provided by iPay. The other day, I was required to "re-regster" due to some "security enhancements". A long story short: the registration process hick-upped and I was able to pull up some serious information (accidentally) on *other people*. I could have done some damage with this info. Much damage. But instead, I called up, reported the event and switched back to the old mail-it-to-me method of compensation. It is worth it.
Another event happeed recently - I registered for DTE Energy for auto-deduct/electronic billing. After I had some trouble with the freakin' way the site handles cookies, I would up calling tech support. It turns out that DTE simply uses CheckFree.com to provide these services. In the process of registration, DTE simply *stole* my MSN Passport (it did not notify me and I had no idea that I had a checkfree account until the tech told me). When the tech support agent told me that my logon to checkfree was *my freaking MSN passport*, I bitched like hell and asked him to cancel my account. I mean, WTF? Do they think that I'd be happy to trust *Microsoft* with my checking account?
I could go on... The bottom line is that nothing is safe anymore. Democracy and Capitalism are mutally exclusive.